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Yum, It’s Starting to Get Tasty

"Fedora 11, known as Leonidas, should offer a much nicer package
management experience. While the major improvements are in the area
of memory usage, do the newer products offer much in the way of a
speed improvement? How does it compare to Cambridge, Fedora 10?

"For the purposes of the test, both Fedora 10 Cambridge and
Fedora 11 Leonidas were installed on the same computer one after
the other, using the installation DVD. The the same partitions were
used and although Leonidas ships with ext4 by default, only ext3
was used. Naturally the actual list of packages may not be
identical, however both consisted of the default install option
which incorporates the GNOME desktop as well as the Office and
Productivity packages. Both systems also received the latest
updates. These tests are by no means intensive, however they should
provide at least some insight into the differences between the two
systems for every day usage. Finally, the latest Cambridge updates
comes with RPM 4.6.1 and Yum 3.2.21, while Leonidas ships RPM 4.7.0
and Yum 3.2.22."